Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VI:
General Note.

General Note.

(Vexillas,-as they are called, p. 399.)

IT is very curious to note how certain ideas are inherited from the earliest Fathers, and travel down, as here, to find a new expression in a distant age. Here our author reflects Justin Martyr,¹⁶ and the Labarum¹⁷ itself is the outcrop of what Justin wrote to Antoninus Pius.